CVE-2025-15558Docker Desktop Docker Plugins Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- 7.0HighCVSS base score
- 0.55%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Docker CLI for Windows searches for plugin binaries in C:\ProgramData\Docker\cli-plugins, a directory that does not exist by default. A low-privileged attacker can create this directory and place malicious CLI plugin binaries (docker-compose.exe, docker-buildx.exe, etc.) that are executed when a victim user opens Docker Desktop or invokes Docker CLI plugin features, and allow privilege-escalation if the docker CLI is executed as a privileged user. This issue affects Docker CLI: through 29.1.5 and Windows binaries acting as a CLI-plugin manager using the github.com/docker/cli/cli-plugins/manager https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/docker/[email protected]+incompatible/cli-plugins/manager package, such as Docker Compose. This issue does not impact non-Windows binaries, and projects not using the plugin-manager code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Docker
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| DockerCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U |
| redhat-SADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 4.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Affected products
- unaffected 29.2.0
- unaffected 5.1.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/docker/cliGHSA-p436-gjf2-799p (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-28304/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/6713 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15558 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2444574 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-15558.json (opens in a new tab)x_sadp-csaf-vex
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-208275 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p436-gjf2-799p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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